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[-] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I wish I got bonzi buddy instead of a virus that copy pasted itself into multiple directories on Win 98se, restoring itself whenever a copy got deleted. That was quite the challenge for 9 year old me to clean the family PC before mom got home from work. Limewire gets all the hate but most of mine came from Real Player! Little me thought Real Player software was legit because of their video codec I always saw anime rips using. No. Nope.

[-] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh yeah, I got that too though DC++ local server. It was "Game_Name trainer.exe" whereas name could be not even from a PC game, but a PS2 exclusive. That shit would generate tons of 1kb exe files of other games in folders like Movies, Music, Downloads and Games, and would slow the fuck down my XP booting speeds if I deleted all of them prior reboot.

Thankfully didnt stole/removed/encrypted anything off my PC.

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